As The Wall Street Journalpoints out, Mnuchin “has no experience running a massive organization . . . or in economic or financial policy-making.” But what the hell do those killjoys know? According to Steven’s father—as in, the man who gave him life and who is biologically predisposed to favor him—his son is “a person of great integrity” and will “do a good job.”

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